European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 15, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5 Kab gives bugging plans to . Envoy washington1 apr ambassador Robert Strauss said Friday that the chief of the soviet Kab in a Goodwill gesture gave him the plans and instruments used to Bug the . Embassy in Moscow. A this is the most amazing thing that a happened to me in my life a Strauss said he told Vadim Baratin head of the soviet intelligence Agency. Strauss speaking at the National press club said the incident occurred earlier this month in the Kab chief s Moscow office. A a there a something i want to give you a Strauss quoted him As saying. A i done to know How Long in a going to be Here but i want to deliver something to you. 1 think its something that will be helpful. It ought to be  according to Strauss Baratin took a thick file and a suitcase like kit full of High tech devices from his Safe. A emr. Ambassador these Are the plans that disclose How the bugging of your embassy took place and these Are the instruments that were used Quot Strauss quoted him As saying. A i want them turned Over to your government no strings  publicly the Kab has never admitted any involvement. Strauss said that when Baratin expressed Hope that the building could be used again some Day he responded a emr. Baratin if i were to try to use that building people would believe that you a Given me three fourths of them and kept a fourth  in 1985, the eight Story building that was to have been the new embassy was found to be riddled with eavesdropping devices. Since then the White House state department and Congress have been at Odds Over How to remedy he problem. Some suggested that parts of the building could be made secure but the final consensus was that it could not be done. Last month. Congress appropriated $220 million for a new building and suggested that parts of the current building be leased to . Companies. Strauss said he and Baratin had become friends and the intelligence chief had on several occasions provided requested information from his files. He said Baratin had asked for advice on increasing civilian oversight in the Kab and Cia agents had been sent to see him on such matters. Strauss said he was telling the Story of the embassy plans a to show you just How much the world has  House unable to kill income tax by the new York times Hartford Conn. A gov. Lowell p. Weicker or. On Friday vetoed a plan to repeal Connecticut a new income tax 30 n thl stars and stripes 10years ago dec. 15,1981 a soldiers empowered to protect Poland s vital a industries broke up a Warsaw sit in by Solidarity members demanding an end to martial Law. Meanwhile the soviet Union warned against . Interference in polish internal affairs.20 years ago dec. 15,1971 a president Nixon and French president Georges Pompidou announced plans for devaluation of the Dollar As one Means of solving the International monetary crisis. The move would make the Dollar and american goods cheaper on foreign markets and ease the . Deficit. 30years ago dec. 15,1961 a Mickey Mantle signed an estimated $85,000 contract that topped babe Ruth speak salary and made him the second highest paid new York Yankee of All time. The Only higher Yankee salary was Joe Dimaggio a $100,000.40 years ago dec. 15,1951 a Diplomat John Stewart service a prime target of sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy r-wis., was fired. However loyalty review Board chairman Hiram Bingham said the Board had Quot found no evidence of a link to communism. Wohl d v/ah50 years ago today 15 dec.1-9-4 1 the soviet offensive on the Moscow front relieves the German threat on Tula and advances on Kalinin. In Asia the japanese push into the British Colony of Burma and open their attack South Down the Malayan Peninsula toward Singapore. Source 2194ulr.  a minutes after it was approved asserting that the legislature had embarked on a path of a full scale surrender to fiscal gimmicks and political  the House then failed to override his veto eliminating All Hope for repeal of the income tax this year. Although neither the veto nor the failure to override it came As a great Surprise the Days events nonetheless stood out As landmarks in the 10 months of conflict and passion that have surrounded the tax debate. Four times the legislature has tried to solve the states fiscal crisis without taxing wages. And four times the lawmakers plans have been rejected by Weicker a third party Independent governor without a single member of his tiny party in the general Assembly. A i surrender we be lost a for today Quot said state rep. Vincent j. Chase a Republican from Stratford speaking on the House floor. A but the ultimate vote on what happens with the income tax will be the vote that a taken next november Quot when All 187 members of the general Assembly Are up for re election. With that a gallery packed with ant tax protesters broke into wild applause. Chase spoke after the 151-member House failed to Muster the 101 votes or two thirds needed to override Weicker s veto. The vote was 84 to 65 a 17 votes Short of what was needed under the state Constitution to override the veto. For some the final failure of repeal was clearly a Flash Point of frustration. Tempers flared and bitterness was Evi Dent in the final debate. A this chamber this body this government this state looks like garbage in the eyes of the people and rightly so a said rep. Richard Foley jr., a Republican from Oxford who is also his party s state chairman. Lawmakers said the special session that began last month to reconsider Weicker the tax will probably end its work this week with an attempt to Amend the current income tax to reduce the Burden on in Iddle income residents. Judge rules against Nixon in suit seeking compensation for papers Washington a former president Richard Nixon does not hold Legal title to his presidential papers housed at the National archives and is not owed any government compensation for them a Federal judge ruled Friday. Nixon a Only held those materials As a trustee for the american people a . District judge John Garrett Penn said in dismissing a lawsuit filed by the former president in 1980. Nixon had contended he was owed compensation from the government for his papers which he said were illegally taken from his control under a 1974 Law. The archives holds 42 million pages of documents and 4,000 hours of recordings from the Nixon presidency. A the presidential papers Are unique and difficult to compare with other types of property Penn wrote. A to argue that these materials were the sole property of the president. Simply is without  Many presidents dating Hack to George Washington treated their presidential papers As their own property the judge said. Modern presidents from Franklin d. Roosevelt to Gerald Ford gave their papers to the government with the express condition that the sex presidents themselves had the Power to decide which documents were to be Given. However Penn wrote the modern presidents appeared to recognize that a if they had a Legal title to the presidential papers it was title in the nature of a trustee holding those papers in Trust for the american people and for  when Nixon resigned aug. 9, 1974, he took personal papers from his office. His presidential papers remained in Washington. That december Congress enacted the Law that Nixon contends took illegal control of the papers. During a hearing on the Case in 1987, Nixon a attorney contended that he was being deprived of private property rights that other chief executives have always exercised Over their files. The former president s attorney had complained  unlike other former presidents Nixon May not review any of the papers without the presence of a government representative. A government attorney said at the time hat restriction and others were intended to prevent destruction of Nixon a papers because of the watergate scandal. The former president must be notified whenever the archives plans to release files for Public use. . Agency halts condom Aid to Egypt after devices reportedly were sold As toys by the Washington Post Washington a the Agency for International development has suspended distribution of 50 million condoms to Egypt after reports that millions of them had been resold by wholesalers apparently for use As toy balloons. The action noted in the Agency inspector general a semiannual report came after Aid officials spotted a puzzling 90 percent increase in the distribution of Aid supplied condoms during 1990. The officials called in investigators to explain the 21 million condom increase. The investigation focused on eight Cairo area pharmacies that received most of the condoms distributed there during a 10-month period in 1990, according to the report. A pharmacy employees led investigators to wholesalers no were buying millions of condoms from these Large distribution pharmacies and Selling them to dealers in Rural areas for resale As toy balloons a the report said. Sources said that Candy and toy stores and other stores apparently were Selling the condoms. The misapplied condoms had been distributed by the egyptian pharmaceutical trading co. Etc under an agreement with Aid that allowed the trading company to retain a portion of the revenues from the Sale of condoms to private pharmacies. A because the trading company condoms had been donated by the . Government a the report said a they could be sold More cheaply than actual toy balloons thereby undercutting competing products and generating profits for the egyptians  after the investigation the Agency delayed the distribution of 16 million condoms already in the country and cancelled orders for 34 million saving Aid $1.8 million according to Agency figures. Chagrined Aid officials noted that condoms were a minor part of what is considered one of he most successful programs at the Agency. Aid and egyptian officials said the family planning program has Lead to a dramatic decrease in the birthrate in Egypt a country of 54 million people where rapid population growth has severely restricted development